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Here’s some inside baseball. Two of the best luxury sedans on the market are – technically – not luxury sedans. Well, they’re not branded – or priced – as such. I speak – out of school – of the Chrysler 300 and the Hyundai Genesis, just updated for the new model year. But you’d be a fool…

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, my family had one not-quite-Cadillac after the next. A succession of Oldsmobiles that had many of the same features, but cost my folks less to buy because an Oldsmobile wasn’t a Cadillac – even if only in name. The Hyundai Azera is a modern take on this idea.…

If GM’s board had simply hired away the entire management team at Hyundai back in ’08 – and fired everyone at the Renaissance Center in Detroit – it would saved taxpayers a lot of money. Those guys – the Hyundai guys – know what they’re doing. One brilliant design after the next. It’s almost boring…

The obvious often isn’t until someone makes it so. For instance, adding a real-sized rear door to a sporty coupe – as Hyundai has done with the Veloster. Much better than one (or even two) quarter-sized rear doors, as in cars like the old Saturn Ion – and more recently, the Mazda RX8. It’s as…

Here’s the good news: Hyundai’s rear-wheel-drive Camaro (and Mustang) fighter gets a significant power bump for 2013 – from both its standard turbo four and its optional V-6. There’s also a new eight-speed automatic on the roster – available with either engine. Ok, the bad news: It appears likely there will never be a V-8…

Hyundai has proved it can build an almost BMW M5 for about half the price in the form of the 429 hp $46,500 Genesis R Spec. In fact, for $400 less than the base price of an entry-level, four-cylinder engined 5-Series (the $46,900 ’12 528i) you can buy a V-8 R Spec with four more…

If you go test-drive a new economy compact – any new economy compact – you will discover something the car industry would probably prefer to keep quiet: There are no latter-day Chevettes or Pintos. There’s nothing embarrassing about any of them. You might want to spend more to get a high-performance car, or maybe a…

If you go test-drive a new economy compact – any new economy compact – you will discover something the car industry would probably prefer to keep quiet: There are no latter-day Chevettes or Pintos. There’s nothing embarrassing about any of them and more than that – there’s nothing shitty about them, either. You might want…

Hyundai thinks it has solved the Access Problem that’s always been a problem for sporty coupes. The 2012 Veloster doesn’t merely have three doors – that’s been done before. It has three different-sized doors. The functional problem is the third door might be on the wrong side (the passenger side) of the car. And even…

Want to make a BMW (or Benz) guy cry? Show him your new Hyundai Genesis R Spec. Tell him about the 429 hp 5 liter V-8 (and 5.2 second 0-60 time). Ask him about his $61,700 BMW 550i (or maybe his $59,790 Benz E550). Now show him your Hyundai’s $46,500 window sticker. Better have some…